JOHN BISSET/Stuff Fred and Elisabeth Smits have driven 182,000 kilometres around the world but came to Timaru in their 1929 Willys Overland Whippet 6. Retirees Fred and Elisabeth Smits have been driving around the world in their 1957 Mercedes-Benz since 2014, and if it wasn’t for Covid-19 they would still be chewing up the miles overseas. So far the retired geotechnical civil engineer and retired special needs worker have completed 182,000 kilometres trundling around the Unites States, Canada, Mexico, South America, Europe and England. They have seen a variety of landscapes such as the remoteness of the Galapagos Islands to the bustling and colourful markets of South America and the seemingly never ending salt flats in Utah and a lot in between.